Monterey Pop Festival's 40th Anniversary Inspires a Flood of Tributes
Press release
Source: Rogers & Cowan
ModernGuitars.com
May 2007
40th Anniversary Monterey Pop Festival CD
The Monterey International Pop Festival was a defining moment in rock and roll history. Thirty-two acts representing nearly every genre of popular music at the time performed on June 16, 17 and 18, 1967 and ushered in the Summer of Love. The unprecedented bill of musically diverse acts showed rock’s power to change the world. Preceding Woodstock by two years, it was the first major rock festival, the first ever rock charity event and spawned the first ever rock concert movie. For one weekend, the harsh realities of the Vietnam War, student unrest, the Cold War, racism, urban riots, poverty and domestic politics were suspended and even transcended. This unprecedented and wildly ambitious project was co-produced by one of the most successful and well-known music producers of all time Lou Adler and John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas. Because all of the artists donated their performances to charity, it resulted in the ongoing nonprofit good works of The Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation which continues to make grants on behalf of the artists who performed at the festival.
“There are a lot of parallels between the climate in America and the world in 2007 and 1967,” commented Adler. “We have an unpopular war, a Republican actor Governor of California, kids have a new way to get and read about their music (then: FM radio; now: iTunes, then: Rolling Stone; now: the Internet )”.
An ever growing series of events and releases are happening this year in celebration of Monterey Pop’s 40th anniversary:
· The Mamas and the Papas, Al Kooper and posthumously Otis Redding are being inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk on May 11, 2007 with a noon event that promises to be star-studded.
Razor & Tie and Starbucks Entertainment will co-release Monterey International Pop, a two-CD retrospective that will benefit the Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation. This unique collection features rare early performances from now music legends including Jefferson Airplane, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Mamas and the Papas and Big Brother & The Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, Simon & Garkunkel and Buffalo Springfield. The set will be available simultaneously at Starbucks company-operated locations in the U. S. and Canada as well as traditional retail.
A special screening of D.A. Pennebaker’s historical “Monterey Pop” documentary will be held on June 5th in New York at the IFC Theater at 323 Sixth Ave. at W. 3rd St. The screening will be open to the public
The “Monterey Pop” documentary will also be screened at the Bonaroo Music Festival in Manchester, TN on June 14th, which will include a Q&A session with D.A. Pennebaker.
VH1 Rock Docs will premiere an original documentary, Monterey 40, on Saturday, June 16 at 9 p.m. on VH1 Classic and VH1. Monterey 40 will tell the story of the historic event from its conception to event to aftermath to lasting impact from the perspective of the musicians, organizers, audience members and visual documentarians. The film will include new interviews with Paul McCartney, David Crosby, Michelle Phillips, Pete Townsend, Grace Slick, Bob Weir, Mickey Dolenz, Ravi Shankar, Clive Davis, Jann Wenner, Paul Kantner and Sammy Hagar, among others.
Monterey County Film Commission will hold a community-wide celebration of the 40th anniversary including a June 16th charity fundraiser featuring a screening of the 1969 documentary, Monterey Pop, an interview discussion with filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker and art show and photo exhibit at Monterey’s historic Golden State Theatre. Tickets are available at the theater box office and www.goldenstatetheatre.com and proceeds will benefit the Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation and the Monterey County Film Commission.
On Thursday July 19th, the Monterey Pop Festival will be saluted with a special evening at the 8th annual "Mods & Rockers Film Festival,"presented by the American Cinematheque at the historic Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The evening will include a presentation of D.A. Pennebaker's historic film "Monterey Pop,"and bonus performances not included in the film. Performers and others associated with the 1967 festival have been invited to attend. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with key Monterey Pop Festival participants. Already confirmed are Michelle Phillips, Eric Burdon and D.A. Pennebaker.
The Monterey Pop Festival will be saluted throughout the three-week span of the "Mods & Rockers Film Festival." Video extracts from the three-disc DVD set "The Complete Monterey Pop Festival" (Criterion Collection) will be screened as short subjects during the festival; and audio from the new two-disc CD set "Monterey International Pop Festival"(Razor & Tie) will be played in the theaters before and after film screenings.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will have a yearlong exhibit opening July 25th.
A Monterey Pop Radio Special is being planned with special programming to be announced.
A newly launched official Internet site: www.montereyinternationalpopfestival.com.
The Criterion Collection DVD: The Complete Monterey Pop Festival.
Rolling Stone Magazine will make Monterey Pop one of the cornerstones of its Summer of Love special double issue.
Jimi Plays Monterey DVD with additional footage chronicling the year leading up to his perfmomance at Monterey (summer ’07).
The artists who appeared at Monterey Pop included: Big Brother & The Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Otis Redding, Eric Burton and the Animals, Simon & Garfunkel, The Grateful Dead, The Butterfield Blues Band, The Steve Miller Band, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Booker T & The MGs, Ravi Shankar, Lou Rawls, The Association, Johnny Rivers, Canned Heat, Country Joe & The Fish, Al Kooper, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Hugh Masekela, Laura Nyro and Buffalo Springfield.
The festival also yielded the 1968 platinum album, Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding at Monterey and the critically acclaimed 1969 D. A. Pennebaker film Monterey Pop, the Grammy-nominated 25th Anniversary Monterey Pop box set, all of which were produced by Lou Adler and John Phillips.
For more information about the Monterey International Pop Festival and the 40th anniversary, please visit www.montereyinternationalpopfestival.com.
For more information about the “Mod and Rocker’s Film Festival,” please visit the "Mods & Rockers" website: www.ModsAndRockers.com.
[Edited by Ten Thousand Motels]
14th May 2007 09:37 PM
Ten Thousand Motels
14th May 2007 10:03 PM
fireontheplatter
cooooool
15th May 2007 01:03 AM
mojoman
if ya dig this concert skip the 40th anniversary release and get the box set that was released 10 years ago its got alot more material though not all because of space and legal limitations same goes for the dvd box set. maybe someday more of the woodstock stuff will also be released. the soundtrack and especially the movie miss so much of what took place......
15th May 2007 08:00 AM
CraigP
quote:Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
What band is this?
I love the bass! Reminds me of Cash and The Tennessee Two.
15th May 2007 08:52 AM
guitarman53
quote:CraigP wrote:
What band is this?
I love the bass! Reminds me of Cash and The Tennessee Two.
Canned Heat "Rollin' & Tumblin'" performance I really like.
A lot of groups prefer Monterey over Woodstock, who played at both festivals.
I think this was Hendrix greatest performance ever, from what it's been told, he was on acid.
15th May 2007 09:43 AM
GotToRollMe
A little Wild Thing from Jimi:
15th May 2007 09:53 AM
GotToRollMe
Hey Joe
15th May 2007 12:06 PM
CraigP
Oh, Canned Heat. Goin' Up The Country! Good song.
I'd love to see a clip of the Association from Monterey.
The look on those girls faces, front row, like "Oh, gosh!" were priceless when hendrix was blowing their minds. They were witnessing the birth of a new generation, and more to come.
j/k loved jimi too........two huge losses to r&r......
[Edited by kath]
15th May 2007 01:33 PM
kath
quote: from what it's been told, he was on acid.
WHAT??????? ACID??? JIMI HENDRIX???????
there must be some misunderstanding.....
15th May 2007 01:42 PM
kath
moby grape....wow...haven't heard that name in a long time. i really liked them a lot. liz taylor's son was in that band.
15th May 2007 05:00 PM
sammy davis jr.
Jimi Hendrix was un-freaking believable that night in Monterey. He pulled out all the stops, and played guitar so effortlessly, like his axe was part of his arm. That could be the best performance I've ever seen by anyone.
15th May 2007 07:08 PM
stonedinaustralia
quote:sammy davis jr. wrote:
Jimi Hendrix was un-freaking believable that night ... He pulled out all the stops, and played guitar so effortlessly, like his axe was part of his arm. That could be the best performance I've ever seen by anyone.
damn straight sam - it just doesn't get any more rock and roll than that - i love the way you can tell he was having so much fun - backward somersaults during "wild thing"(?) and so forth
not to mention of course the absolutely mind blowing guitar playing
15th May 2007 11:47 PM
killerbitch
Have downloaded a lot of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival on LimeWire.
Did not try any other source yet.
16th May 2007 01:11 AM
Freejack
Moby Grape to re-unite plus Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Company, to perform at the 40th Anninvesary of the Monterrey Pop Festival.
http://www.summer67.com/monterey_home.html
THE 'POP' HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD
Reunion to mark 40th anniversary
By BRENDA MOORE
Herald Staff Writer
Monterey County Herald
Article Last Updated:05/10/2007 01:28:52 AM PDT
Unpack your bell-bottoms and love beads.
A Bay Area music promoter hopes to re-create a slice
of the famed Monterey International Pop Festival,
bringing back the current incarnations
of some of the original players for a 40th anniversary bash.
Andrew Hernandez has booked the Monterey Fairgrounds,
site of the groundbreaking concert in June 1967,
and signed on bands including Jefferson Starship,
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, David LaFlamme (doing the music of It's a Beautiful Day)
and Moby Grape.
Hernandez plans a two-day festival, July 28-29,
with two stages featuring old bands, new bands and tribute groups that replicate the music of some of the giants of the '60s.
The original festival was a landmark in rock history.
The artists performed for free, with all revenue donated to charity. More than 200,000 fans from all over the country attended the event, which is generally regarded as the beginning
of the so-called "Summer of Love."
The festival became legendary for the first major American appearance by The Who and by Jimi Hendrix,
who was booked on the insistence of board member Paul McCartney. It also was the first major public performance for Janis Joplin,
backed by Big Brother and The Holding Company,
and Otis Redding, backed by Booker T. & The MGs.
Redding died only a few months later,
followed by Hendrix and Joplin in 1970.
Many of the original players are either dead, r
etired or performing different music with different people.
But Hernandez is trying to line up as many
of the survivors as he can. If he pulls it off,
it will be by far his biggest show to date.
He's worked in the business for years on a small scale,
booking groups at clubs, publishing a music magazine
about up-and-coming Bay Area bands and,
most recently, running a tribute show with impersonators
of The Doors, Hendrix, The Mamas and the Papas
and other rock icons.
"This is huge for me," Hernandez said.
"I'm excited and scared to death."
Hernandez said he decided to try to put on the Monterey show
after he couldn't find anyone else organizing one.
He had hoped to call it Monterey Pop Festival Part II,
or something similar, but couldn't get the naming rights,
he said. So he's calling it "Monterey Summer of Love Festival."
The groups Hernandez has booked so far are represented
by Michael Gaiman, longtime manager of Jefferson Starship.
All but Moby Grape were already lined up to do a 40th anniversary Summer of Love tour, Gaiman said. Monterey will be a special stop,
he said.
"There are certain places in the annals of music and hippiedom
that are hallowed ground," and Monterey is one of them, he said.
Among the players who are scheduled to return are Paul Kantner and Marty Balin, founders of the Jefferson Airplane; and vocalist/violinist LaFlamme, formerly of It's a Beautiful Day.
The performance of Moby Grape would be a reunion after a yearslong breakup. The son of the drummer, the late Skip Spence, is scheduled to join the original members, Gaiman said.
They're scheduled to do a warm-up performance in Petaluma a week before the Monterey festival, he said. Tom Constanten,
a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who played keyboards with the Grateful Dead, also is scheduled to perform.
The lineup, schedule and ticket prices are still developing.
Gaiman said his bands are scheduled to play on July 28,
and are holding July 29 open for possible second performances.
Hernandez said he hopes to book more of the original bands,
but also is trying to sign newer players to appeal
to younger audiences.
"We're going to finalize the basic lineup soon but are leaving spots open for some surprise guests and possible last-minute arrivals,"
he said.
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